The Bolivian government has announced that it has initiated prosecutions against former interim president, Janine Agnes, former presidential candidate Luis Fernando Camacho, and other right-wing opposition officials.

These prosecutions are due to the "political violence" that followed the cancellation of the legislative elections last year

While the Bolivian Ministry of Justice submitted a request to Parliament to try Agnes, the Speaker of Parliament, Freddy Mamani, confirmed that he had referred the ministry's request to the Constitution Committee for consideration.

Lydia Patti, a former member of the now ruling "Movement Toward Socialism", has also filed a complaint with the Criminal Court against Camacho, and other right-wing officials, for allegedly carrying out a "coup" against former President Evo Morales, who was forced to resign in 2019. Camacho on the moves that took place at that time, stressing that "there was no coup, but rather a movement of citizens who took to the streets to demonstrate."

"France Press" indicated that the Bolivian police refused at the time of the protests and obeyed orders, and that the army in turn withdrew its support for Morales, who resigned in November 2019, before leaving the country to Mexico and then to Argentina, and then returned to his country after his party won the elections during This year.

The right-wing opposition spoke of “fraud” in the elections that took place in October 2019, in favor of Morales, who ran for a fourth term ending in 2025, and then violence exploded across the country, after these elections, whose results were ultimately canceled, as the violence that took place resulted Last year, 35 people were killed, according to the French agency.

Source: "France Press"

By:Nadeemy Haded